Fresh Ink Draws Top Illustrator
Illustrator and painter D.R. Wagner brings his talent to The Fresh Ink Group, LLC.

A veteran of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, Wagner is a self-taught artist who prefers to study the masters like Michelangelo and Monet over “modern” or abstract painters.

Having taught numerous workshops and art classes, he enjoys capturing what he feels and seeing what it invokes in others. “I especially like working with writers like The Fresh Ink Group,” he says, “because no matter what or who we describe, each offers a viewpoint, and the audience adds the rest.”

Watch for Wagner’s watercolors and acrylics highlighting the essays and stories available free on this site. Don’t forget to send them to friends and family, and enter your e-mail address in our membership list to receive more freebies and previews of upcoming projects.

Invigilator To Return

The Fresh Ink Group, LLC, announces the Spring 2004 re-release of Stephen Geez’s sci-fi militia thriller, a fully revised and updated version of the alien-conspiracy tale that raised quite a few eyebrows. Sidestepping questions about how so much of what appeared in the first edition has since come true, Geez instead offers the following blurb for the new edition:

Pretending his body carries an alien and training to protect it is fun for young Eugene Weisman—until the game becomes deadly and his life depends on the secret that might truly live inside him.

Hand-picked to helm Program Invigil by a dying general who believes one alien escaped, Colonel McGovern is responsible for the detection, isolation, and eradication—wielding enormous inter-military power cloaked in secrecy.

Too old for the assassination biz, soldier of fortune Flynn Durbett is content to run a weapons-smuggling ring for governments and militias—but then old obligations become new ones, forcing him to balance his own beliefs with others’ right to decide for themselves.

Convinced the world needs him for salvation, Weisman attracts followers who believe he’s the true messiah. McGovern uses any method he deems necessary in his obsessive quest to protect life as we know it. But nobody knows for sure—except maybe the missing woman . . . if she can ever be found.

Do we really need to be saved—and who will deliver us? The government—or a loosely organized rag-tag militia? Is it all fantasy, or a threat greater than we can imagine?

Whatever the truth, only one man can be the Invigilator.

With a new cover by Fresh Ink Group artist D.R. Wagner, Invigilator will be available in Fall 2003. Be sure to enter your e-mail address in the membership list to receive a personal alert when it’s time again to Invigilate.